Humorous Sayings

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

We make war that we may live in peace.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

To perceive is to suffer.

The law is reason free from passion.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Once, Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering about, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know that he was Zhuang Zhou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuang Zhou. But…

The minnows swim about so freely, following the openings wherever they take them. Such is the happiness of fish.

You are not I. How do you know I don't know the happiness of fish?

Let's go back to the beginning. When you asked 'How do you know the happiness of fish?' you already knew that I knew it when you asked the question. I knew it by standing here on the Hao River.